Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-08-04
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

against the National opera com pany TO
recover salary for services as musical
director, amounting to 1880
lar dire :tors of the Minneapolis ex
position will ask Mr.. Gladstone to open
the affair by pressing an electric button
at London if the cable companies report
the thing feasible.
Ar meeting of the Massachusetts, Re
publican State Central Committee at
Boston on Thursday it was voted to hold
the State convention in that city Sep
tember 28.
WILLIAM j. HAMMOND d. Soss, iron
manufacturers, of Pittsburg, are fnanci-
ally embarrassed, and have called a meet
ing of their creditors. Their mill was
destroyed by fire recently, causing them
leavy loss, which is supposed to have
led to their financial troubles.
The Saranae On. " Iron Company
Bowen & Signor, proprietary, have
made an assignment. The liabilities are
figured at 100000, and the assets at
about $4,000.
Mr. FRANoIs a. OKEEFE mayor of the
ancient city of Limerick, ard prominent
member Of the nationalist party, is to
make tour of the United States.
r. f. PAGE, well-to-do retired farmer,
living several miles south of Naperyille,
H., lett home on or about July 5.
Nothing of his whereabouts has been
departure.
A FIRE early Wednesday morning, at
Lidcoln, Neb., destroyed mphrey Bros.
hardware store and several other large
stores, causing a total loss of 100000,
which is covered by insurance.
MRs. j. LAWRENCE SMITH, niece of the
late MIS-. Stewart, has sued Judge Hilton
to obtain an accounting and to set aside
the transfer of the dry-goods business
made by Mrs. Stewart in 1876 which she
asserts was unlawfully made end against
the interests of the heirs.
j. j. CoMLEY, editor Of the Commercial
and minister 20 the Sandwich Islands,
who had been i'll from com piication of
disorders for some time, died at 1920
last night at his residence in Toledo, aged
So. He had long been a republican in
politics.
Tux Columbian Government has grant
ed TO the Central and South American
Telegraph Company authority to estab
fish and operate telegraph line across
the IBthmus of Panama and to extend its
cables from Colon along the Atlantic
coast to South America.
The remains of Alexander McKinnon,
the first baseman of the Pittsburg league
club, were inferred Tuesday at Lowell
Mass. The floral offerings completely
covered the grave.
DIR. +. ID. STAMFORD, of Louisville,
died at his residence in that city. He
was an active candidate to succeed
Mr.. Beck in the United States Senate,
and was prominent in business and polit-
zeal circles.
The Carpenters and Builders associa-
tiop, of Chicago, held meeting Satur
day night, aud refused 20 submit to arbi-
tration, The iourneymen carpenters say
that they will surely strike work on all
jobs wher9 more than eight hours are re-
quired.
Ting union longshoremen of New York,
who failed to secure an increase in wages
for night work by striking last winter,
and who returned TO work in conse
quence, have repeated the old demands,
and will go out again if they are not ac-
oeded to,
TnR Northern Pacific railroad crop re-
port for the past week is generally favor
able. Rains have fallen almost every day,
and the wheat in nearly every section,
except between St. Paul and Brainerd,
looks we'll. On the Duluth and Manitoba
road and in the Red river valley the yield
will be larger than usual, and generally II
will at least be an average.
The largest steamboat IN the world Is
10 be built for the Fab River Line. 1t
will be called the Puritan, and will be 404
feet long at the water line. She will
have 335 state-rooms and all modern inn
She will cost 100000, and
will be finished in May, 1889.
INSURANCE men are troubled over the
number of disastrous fires that have oc-
Cured in the past six months, II Is be
ievtd that the teaching of Johann Most,
Ihe Anarchist, and his followers have led
10 many of the conaagrations, and Most's
book on dynamite and phosphorus as in
csndiary agents have bt on referred to the
police committee at New York. Fire
are discussing various
remedies for averting those heavy losses
which are said TO be draining the re
of the companies.